Marc Blucas famous quotes

05-22-2025

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
-- Marc Blucas

#Play #Serial Killer #Actors
I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.
-- Marc Blucas

#Workaholic
With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.
-- Marc Blucas

#Tvs #Flexible #Knows
TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.
-- Marc Blucas

#Years #Decision #Tvs
The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.
-- Marc Blucas

#Sports #School #Kids
If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.
-- Marc Blucas

#Heart #Guts #Ifs
It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.
-- Marc Blucas

#Making Money #Easy #Easier

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing.
They're daring me to kill again.
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept ***** teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

Marc Blucas famous quotes

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